For the last week, the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has looked like this:
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has gone to the Senate floor to accuse his party's Senate leader of telling "a flat-out lie." Former Arkansas Gov. Mike...

The Republican Party has a bigger problem than Donald Trump: It hasn't figured out what it wants to be.
GOP candidates still worship the legacy of Ronald Reagan, and cast themselves as Reagan's heirs; there's hardly a GOP stump speech in Iowa or New...

When Chris Christie recently launched his presidential bid with a pep-style rally at his old high school, Jim O’Neill pointedly skipped the homecoming event.
“I didn't want to do anything that would have suggested, even tacitly, that I was supportive...

In a large and varied Republican field, there may not be a more confounding presidential candidate than Tuesday’s entry, John Kasich.
In the 1990s, he was part of the conservative revolution on Capitol Hill. As governor of Ohio for the last...

Gov. Jerry Brown, speaking at a conference hosted by Pope Francis, on Tuesday denounced climate change skeptics as well-financed “troglodytes” determined to “bamboozle” local leaders.
Brown said he has no faith in Congress to act on global warming, and...

Janelle Branch wiped away tears as her husband and sons planted American flags on the grassy bank of the four-lane highway outside the Navy-Marine Corps center, the deadly stop by a gunman who attacked it after firing upon another military site.
On the...

President Obama, fresh from a victory before the U.S. Supreme Court last week that preserved the Affordable Care Act, called for an end to the political fighting over the health law and for more effort to improve it.
“This is about people. This is not...

GOP candidates: An article in the June 28 Section A about the wide field of Republican presidential candidates referred to Ohio Gov. John Kasich's support for expanding Medicare under the Affordable Care Act. It should have said...

Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signed a bill Thursday that decriminalized marijuana use, and a host of ballot measures and legislative initiatives could push other states closer to decriminalization or legalization before the year is over.
The bill,...

Neither was in the audience but Jeb Bush jokingly alluded to both, drawing appreciative laughs by noting he met his first president the day he was born and the second the day he came home from the hospital.
Then Bush, formally announcing his run for...

A surge of presidential aspirants should be a good thing for New Hampshire and Iowa. More candidates mean more energy, more face time with a potential future president and more campaign cash left behind in the diners and coffee shops of political lore.
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It's finally official: Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, will decide which candidates can compete in Republican presidential primaries next year.
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FOR THE RECORD
GOP debate: Doyle McManus’ column on the rules for the first...

Tension in Cleveland remained elevated Sunday, a day after Police Officer Michael Brelo was acquitted of manslaughter charges in the shooting deaths of two unarmed people during a 2012 car chase.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich praised local...

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Even in today's Republican Party there's such a thing as being too much of a long shot.
On Thursday, John Bolton, the former ambassador to the U.N. under George W. Bush, who had flirted with entering the race for the GOP presidential nomination,...

A few weeks ago, Jorge Ramos of Fusion asked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) if he would attend the gay wedding of a loved one. Rubio responded, “If it's somebody in my life that I care for, of course I would.” Rubio went on to say that he doesn't have to agree...